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Fair talking
"People talking"
'People thinking'
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Incoming transmission:
Subject: Number 012
Status: Subject was supposedly caved in. Uninjured as of last transmission.
Location: Last detected in Midgar Mountain Range; Coordinates are 23.2N, 31.5E
Location Details: -Inhabited by Red Dragons during summer months (Red Dragons- extremely territorial) -Nearly inaccessible via ground transport -Rock formations consist mainly of conglomerate and shale (soft rocks); unsuitable location for excavation
Activate Tracking Device?
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"...Does anyone hear a beeping noise?" Zack asked suddenly. One of the baby dragons jumped on him and started tugging at his shirt playfully. Zack frowned and brushed it off. "Stop that, you'll rip it."
"No," Sephiroth sighed, allowing the second baby dragon to perch precariously on the dull side of Masamune with its wings spread for balance. The two-foot dragon leapt off, apparently trying to fly, only to manage gliding across the cave. "You have to flap your wings," Sephiroth unecessarily instructed it.
"What about you?" Zack asked Reno, who was sitting indian style and poking at the third and final dragon with his EMR (with the electricity off, of course). The baby was fighting valiantly against the metal stick of doom.
"Nope," Reno replied. The dragon leapt onto the rod and gnawed on it viciously, and Reno gently shook it off.
I don't hear anything, Fair put in.
"Strange, I could swear I hear this beeping in the back of my head," Zack mumbled, allowing his dragon to clambor over him.
"You know, they're kinda like puppies," Reno stated when the dragon nuzzled him affectionately.
"I wouldn't know," Sephiroth said. His dragon was trying to climb back up him again, apparently wanting to be back on Masamune.
"You never had a dog?" Zack asked. His dragon sneezed and briefly lit his pants on fire. "OhShit!"
Sephiroth rose an eyebrow at him. "I never had a place to keep one."
"You must have been one deprived kid, yo," Reno remarked.
The sad thing is, he doesn't know how right he is, Fair sighed.
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Meanwhile, Cloud was having his own fun with the young dragon that had followed him.
"Oh, no you don't," he growled when it hissed threateningly at him, shifting around the bracer he had on. It was the only weapon he had, aside from a small knife that most likely wouldn't get him anywhere.
A quick and well-aimed blizzara sealed the dragon's mouth shut with ice, successfully taking care of it most powerful attacks, and Cloud leapt to pin the large-dog-sized dragon down as it shook its head manically to try to remove said ice.
A few minutes later and the dragon was pinned down to the ground with large rocks trapping its wings, still silenced by the ice on its muzzle. Cloud felt a little bad, because it was hardly the dragon's fault they were in this situation, but he told himself he'd free it before they left the mountain.
He forgot about its tail, which gave him a rather painful thwack on the back of the head, and he glowered at the almost smug look on the dragon.
"Don't make me reconsider letting you go," he warned, quickly ducking when the tail made another swipe at him.
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"I wonder if Cloud's okay," Zack worried aloud. His dragon, clinging to his back, was pumping its wings furiously, apparently wanting him to go somewhere and, from the right angle, making Zack look like some kind of insane bat.
Aww, it wants a piggy-back ride! Fair cooed.
"I'm sure he's fine," Sephiroth brushed off his concerns. "The older dragons didn't see him and he doesn't seem to be the type to lose easily to the other monsters around here."
"You're forgetting he isn't trained like us," Zack frowned. "He only has an ice, bolt, and cure materia. What if he runs out of MP?"
"KFC?" Reno supplied with a grin. Zack grimaced at him and threw a rock. Zack's dragon started growling at Reno's, who was snarling at Zack for throwing something at his 'Mama.'
"Not much sibling affection," Sephiroth noted.
From outside, the terrified noises of ChocoMog continued, and Zack finally sighed and went to Sephiroth to take the summon's materia.
"I think that's enough," he stated. The General shrugged indifferently and Zack shoved his arm through the hole and un-summoned the poor animals.
A low growling reached his ears (past that infernal beeping), and he yelped, "SHIVA!" before diving out of the way of a jet of flame. The three baby dragons roared in outrage (which sounded much closer to squeaking, actually) and each puffed off a pitiful-sized flame in retaliation. The General patted his dragon on the head approvingly.
Reno eyed the man warily, looking between him and the dragon he was allowing to curl up beside him.
"You know, I really don't think Lazard will let you bring home a dragon, yo," the Turk remarked.
"I never said I was bringing him home," Sephiroth stated loftily. "Though if I did, I don't see who could stop me."
Zack blinked at them. "A pet dragon would be freaking awesome."
Oh, hell yea! Fair agreed.
"Don't encourage him," Reno complained, frowning at Zack.
"If Rufus Shinra can have a Guard Hound as a pet," Sephiroth shrugged. "I don't see why I couldn't have a dragon."
"Dark Nation is three feet tall," Reno deadpanned. "That's as big as he's ever gonna get, yo. Your dragon here'll get to be the size of the President's damn office."
"Details," Sephiroth brushed them aside.
Seph can be somewhat spoiled, Fair remarked. I don't think Reno knows that him saying Sephiroth can't have the dragon makes him want to keep it even more.
"Where would he put it?" Zack wondered.
Plenty of room in the wastelands! Fair chirped. Also, there's Sector 0, but that would be kind of hard to get to.
"What's that?"
Eh, secret place you're not supposed to know about, so don't go asking questions!
"The President would never let you keep it!" Reno was still arguing. There was an odd glint in Sephiroth's eyes.
Oh, yep, Reno just sealed the deal. You're coming home with a dragon now.
"Sweet," Zack grinned.
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Back at the Shinra Building, one 2nd Class SOLDIER Kunsel Insertlastnamehere was speaking about the current whereabouts of his friend to the Director of SOLDIER.
"So you believe they are in need of help," Lazard stated finally after listening to Kunsel's worries.
"Yes, sir," Kunsel nodded.
Lazard rose an eyebrow. "Even though the General is with them?"
Kunsel cringed. "Yes, sir."
The eyebrow rose further. "And you know this...how?"
"What chip?" Kunsel flinched, a nervous smile on his face. "I don't know anything about a tracking chip I implanted into Zack's head one time when he was passed out. No clue what you are talking about, sir, none at all.
Lazard stared at him, and Kunsel started sweating bullets, before Lazard finally shrugged and turned to his desk.
"I'll send in a call," he said, picking up his phone. "If neither Fair nor the General answer I'll ask the Director of the Turks to send in an agent."
Kunsel sighed in relief.
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"I'm hungry," Zack complained.
I'm not! Fair said brightly.
"You can't be," Zack complained.
"We could eat roast dragon," Reno mused, looking thoughtfully at one of the babies. Sephiroth narrowed his eyes as Reno happened to be looking at his dragon and fingered the hilt of Masamune warningly. Reno looked away rather quickly.
"We've been waiting for hours," Zack continued to moan. "Where is Cloud?"
"It would take at least an hour to get to the truck," Sephiroth said. "And then he has to get past the monsters. We'll probably be here for another hour before we get out of here."
"Veld's gonna kill me," Reno whined. "I'll be late at this rate."
"I'm sure you'd be late anyways," Sephiroth sighed.
"Bug off," Reno grumbled.
"The beeping's getting louder," Zack noted.
"I can hear it, now," Sephiroth stated as he looked up. "It's...coming from you, Zack, is it your phone?"
Zack blinked and checked. "No, it's been dead."
"I hear it, too," Reno said, looking at him. "What is that?"
They suddenly noticed that the dragons had finally gone silent, and they paused to pay attention to the more pressing matter.
From the back of the cave, there was a sudden sound that had them standing up in alarm.
"Did they fucking dig through?" Reno moaned.
The noise continued, until there was the sound of something creaking and Cloud and, surprisingly, the Turk Rude, came into view.
Reno, Zack, and Sephiroth were understandably confused. Cloud apparently couldn't pick between looking dreadfully embarrassed or wanting to drop kick someone in the face. Rude was, of course, blank.
"Rude?" Reno greeted in surprise. "How did you get in here?"
The bigger Turk surveyed them quietly, unnoticable behind his ever-resent sunglasses.
"There was a door," he finally said, bluntly.
"A door." Zack repeated, blue eyes flashing dangerously. "I heard that right, right? Did you just say a "door?""
Wooow, Fair said, sounding like he might start laughing.
"A fucking door?" Reno blew up.
"Who was supposed to check that wall?" Cloud asked, his voice eerily calm in a way that made him sound even more threatening.
Reno and Zack looked at each other, apparently ready to jump at each other's throats the minute the perpertrator confessed.
"...My apologies," Sephiroth spoke up, at least having the decency to look embarrassed. Everyone gaped at him and he shrugged. "I was distracted."
They just continued to gape. Well, except Rude of course, because he's too cool for that.
"Can we go home now?" Cloud asked pointedly.
"Reno, Veld wishes for me to inform you that the cost of the helicopter you trashed is coming out of your paycheck," Rude said.
Reno just whimpered.
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Awright, so Sephy is gonna get a dragon! :D Problem is, I don't have the slightest clue as to what to name him. So, if you could leave your thoughts in your review, I could pick my favorite suggestions and make a poll on my profile for you guys to vote, kay? :D
Oh, and, btw, for those of you who don't know what Sector 0 is (I have come to the realization that more people have played just Crisis Core and maybe the original game than all three games (Dirge of Cerberus)), it is this really big, basically ruined town beneath the Shinra Building. (Well, underground is the town. Above ground, it's the area where the Shinra building sits and a few highways that lead to and from it.)